HENRY

Peter Austin recounts the recent International Conference on Austronesian Endangered Language Documentation in Taiwan (why did I miss that one?):

  The current struggles by the Thao, Pazeh, Kaxabu and other groups in Taiwan are reminiscent of the situation in eastern Australia, though historically with rather less positive participation by linguists. It is interesting that it is anthropologists, ecologists and others who are at the forefront of involvement in the current grass-roots language and cultural revitalisation efforts in central Taiwan.

Posted on June 18th, 2007 by Simon Greenhill